Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHeaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Truth is not private property.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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